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News, developments (which is still kind of news), and chit-chat about "the bunny", "the ferret", "the pound", "the club", "the volcano", and at least two more Ned-penned musicals which haven't yet been shortened to "the (noun)"!

04/29/2026

Editing script to reflect changes you made in the score: tedious and not a lot of fun.

Editing script to reflect changes you made in the score right before a rehearsal where actual performers will benefit from the edits: magical and uplifting.

04/20/2026

There could be a bunny resurgence within the year.

Not that I'd want to count my carrots before they hatch.

04/14/2026

From the volcano lyrical boneyard - or shall I say, fragments too small to qualify as a "trunk song"...

We’re past the age of overtures
The chorus is weaker
The orchestra’s a laptop
with a Bluetooth speaker

02/16/2026

I'm not generally good at blurbs and elevator speeches, but I'm trying to get better. Here's tonight's attempt:

Four thousand years ago, a tavern customer left a scathing review.

Now, at last…
consequences.

11/03/2025

It wasn't extinct. It was merely dormant. More soon!

09/29/2025

To initially create my most recent work, I gave myself this brief: “Small cast, unit set… and other than that, go crazy! Let your imagination go where it will. Leave behind the confessionals of your previous work and create something entirely fictional.”

Naturally, I created something as personal and autobiographical as any of it, maybe more so. Nearly every element had a tie to people or events in my life. In particular, my feelings and frustrations about Chris circa 2007 were laid bare. I do not talk about this kind of thing in public. Yet there it is, in my script and lyrics. Chris says he’s fine with it. I’m less sure.

I’m currently in an editing phase, and at every turn the only way to strengthen the story is to make it even more autobiographical. I feel like Seymour with his little monster plant, feeding it drops of my blood but also throwing in articles of my clothing.

I may regret this sacrifice.

09/03/2025

I keep getting notifications that people are reading this page, though I update it so infrequently. It's not a good time to make posts; it's one of those "no productions on the horizon" periods, and it's honestly bad for my mental health to dwell on that aspect.

Do I believe that it's all over? No, I really don't, at least not yet. Do I believe that I might outlive everything I've created, at which point it truly will be all over? Yeah. I think it's entirely possible. It haunts me every day since the most recent production closed. Am I tired? Deeply.

But you know what? Existential dread is the underlying theme to every single thing in my catalog, yet I'm known mostly for writing light, fluffy, funny entertainment - which, don't misconstrue, I'm more than happy to be known for that. It's worth doing that kind of alchemy.

Though it's not and can't be a main goal, I dream of the day when I post positive developments on this page once more.

07/17/2025

After years of being asked if I would want to expand Fosgate into a full 2-act and explaining that I didn't want to slacken my tightest story, I've finally deduced how best to do it while leaving the one-act version unscathed.

But, really, is there actual demand for such a piece? Or would I be "filling a much-needed void"?

06/23/2025

I can now quantify two experiences I've had multiple times:

1.) Actors and directors who perceive my writing as good and then use their skills to enhance it

2.) Actors and directors who perceive my writing as weak and then use their skills to attempt a repair

In nearly every 2.) case, I just needed to rewrite.

06/15/2025

I keep seeing notifications that people are seeing this page, despite the fact that I don't post much.

I'm going to spend the next two weeks pulling one of my biggest flops out of the dumpster and renovating it. I can't tell if there's an audience for it, but I just want it to exist and have a chance to connect with people, and that will never happen unless I put in the work. So, there's that.

Next update after I accomplish that.

04/30/2025

Current task: tweaking some dialogue before the off-book deadline. It's dicey, but far preferable to sending a performer out there with lines that will land like a lead balloon. And there's no guarantee that I'm not just creating more lead balloons.

03/31/2025

Whoa. I've just had an experience I didn't think was possible for me.

I read some of my own script, untouched for 15 years - the fragmented remains of "Animal Farm Proudly Presents", the ill-fated show which I gutted and rewrote into "Fosgate" - and realized that I'd forgotten more than 90 percent of it. It led me to two demos for songs I'd banished completely from my memory, as well as a fourth verse for "Sugarcandy Mountain", the neglected orphaned ballad.

It all reads like something that came out of my head, but I no longer have any memory of doing it; it's as if it simply appeared on the page. The plot is a bit too meta - they're reading a script for the first time - but it ties together well and takes each character through a satisfying arc. It's a first draft, green and obviously never read by actors, but it has a gravitas which Fosgate, for all its charms, can't quite muster. And my own jokes made me laugh a few times. I never would have thought of them. Except I clearly did.

With the Orwell estate stubbornly lording over the rights (Britain isn't as forgiving about parodies as Weird Al's America in that regard), there's no point in trying to bring AFPP to the musical theater stage. It's a mess at the moment. And Fosgate clearly has more going for it. Still, I wonder if there's some form I can put this into and share it. What does one do with an un-produceable stage show these days?

If we end up angels
or we end up glue
in the end it's only
what it means to you
and I know that somehow
you believe it too...
there's always Sugarcandy Mountain.

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